I was born and raised in England, I have always had a strong attachment to Caribbean history. I learned about the formerly enslaved women who went looking for their lost children when I was sixteen and attended the exhibition Making Freedom put on by the Windrush Foundation. The exhibition cast emancipation in a new light—not as the gift of white people in Britain, but as something fiercely fought for by the slaves themselves in revolutions and rebellions, from Haiti to Barbados.
